Biden’s and Blinken’s words do real harm

Words matter. That’s the thing to remember about the libellous descriptions of Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas terrorists that came forth from both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in recent days. Read more

It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without being accused of acting only to seek some sort of advantage over his opponents. Read more

UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel

Let’s not get caught up in the details of the controversy that made headlines this past weekend about the fact that 12 employees of UNRWA—the U.N. refugee agency dedicated to assisting the Palestinians—took part in the Hamas pogroms in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Read more

A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organisations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. Read more

The post-Oct 7 era of official antisemitism begins

It’s easy to think of the opening of the International Court of Justice’s trial of Israel that began this week in The Hague as just more of the same from the international community. Read more

Harvard resignation is a diversity, equity, and inclusion debacle

In the end, not even the support of former President Barack Obama and one of his former cabinet members was enough to save Claudine Gay from being forced out as president of Harvard University. Read more

There was more to Leonard Bernstein than his sex life or his nose

It turns out the least of the sins of Bradley Cooper’s new film “Maestro” is the size of the prosthetic nose the actor wore to portray Leonard Bernstein. Read more

Biden needs to sober up about the Palestinians

It’s a debate the Israeli government neither wants nor thinks it needs to engage in right now. Read more

Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage

I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. Read more

Ceasefire advocates are Hamas’s useful idiots

It’s been more than two weeks since the atrocities of Oct. 7 shocked the world with the deliberate cruelty and barbarism exhibited by Hamas terrorists as they conducted what has been aptly described as pogroms inside Israel. Read more

Hamas weaponizes sympathy for civilians they help kill

It’s a difficult balancing act, but most of the talking heads and pundits are managing to pull it off. Read more

Hamas atrocities explode the two-state myth

At last. After 17 years of Western diplomatic pressure from the United States to limit its responses to Hamas terrorism, it appears that Washington may be finally prepared to let Israel strike a decisive blow against the Islamist group in Gaza. Read more

Israel-Saudi normalization has nothing to do with Biden

During its first years in office, the Biden administration had difficulty saying the words “Abraham Accords,” let alone taking actions to follow up and expand upon the Trump administration’s foreign-policy triumph. Read more

The cruel lessons of the Oslo debacle remain unlearned

We’ve seen this movie before. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas says something awful and antisemitic. Read more

Antisemitism won’t be stopped by censoring Musk’s X

Elon Musk may have thought that he was being shaken down by the American Anti-Defamation League. Read more

Is it racist to prioritise freedom from terror?

So much of what has been tearing Israel apart in the last several months can be traced back to public opinion about one man—and his last name isn’t Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

The problem isn’t Bradley Cooper’s nose

I was at least partly wrong when I wrote about the reaction to Bradley Cooper’s nose last year. Read more

Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works?

According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favour. Read more

Herzog’s duty is to stand with Israel’s elected government

When Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives in Washington next week, he’ll get the kind of red-carpet treatment that is reserved for the friendliest and most important U.S. allies. Read more

Why can’t we talk about Ukrainian antisemitism?

How important is the struggle against antisemitism to the liberal corporate media? How much of it a priority is it for the organised Jewish world? Read more

Christiane Amanpour and the Institutionalisation of media bias

At what point do we just shrug and no longer bother to even complain about a biased press? Read more

Joe Biden’s empty words about antisemitism

For those who think what Jews need is more official recognition of their heritage, it was a great afternoon. Read more

The Gaza Strip and learning to live with insoluble problems

Upon its conclusion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly lauded the Israel Defence Forces for its brilliant work during “Operation Shield and Arrow.” Read more

Where Holocaust commemoration succeeded and where it failed

In the 1980s, as the generation of Holocaust survivors began to age, the Jewish world found itself pondering some relevant questions: What would happen after the last of the survivors were gone? Who would then bear witness to the greatest crime in history? And how could we ensure that their legacy did not die with them? Read more

What’s worse: Threats by Smotrich or Amnesty International?

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich does not appear to be ready for prime time. Read more

Judge the Jewish rioters, but don’t rationalize Arab murderers

In terms of the amount of coverage it has received in the media, the most important event in the Middle East in the last week was a riot carried out by Jews that took place in the town of Huwara following a terrorist attack committed by Palestinian Arabs that took the lives of two young Jewish men. Read more

US Mideast diplomacy isn’t advancing peace or democracy

During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Jerusalem this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did his best to act as if the U.S.-Israel relationship had never been better. Read more

What killed the two-state solution? Cheers and cash for terrorists

In his initial phone conversation with new Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen to congratulate him and the rest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on taking office, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken conveyed two contradictory messages. Read more

Is Israel really threatened by Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount gambit?

For those convinced that naming Itamar Ben-Gvir Israel’s minister of national security was tantamount to putting a ticking time bomb in the cabinet, his latest move was proof that they’d been right. Read more

The anti-Bibi resistance is playing with fire

Like the Democrats who went into the streets in their millions the weekend Donald Trump was inaugurated president in January 2017, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s foes clearly intend to act as a “resistance,” rather than a loyal opposition. Read more

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